April 28th, 2010
Canon EFS 18-55mm lens rebuild
I rebuilt my sister-in-law’s Canon EFS 18-55mm autofocus lens which had a bad run-in with a tree. I suspect the tree was OK, but the lens wasn’t quite as happy. It was ‘bent’ to one side, and couldn’t zoom or focus at all. It turned out that it was off the plastic ‘tracks’ inside. The surgery was a success and it is back in use today. The only casualty (besides some hair-raising moments) was that the manual focus component stopped working- I damaged or didn’t reassemble the “clutch” correctly.
